The phrase "actually allowed to do" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing permissions or rights regarding actions or behaviors in various contexts.
Example: "I wasn't sure if I was actually allowed to do that, so I checked the company policy."
Alternatives: "truly permitted to do" or "genuinely authorized to do".
Hence, General McPeak's argument is sound: a closeted gay person is not only free of ugly distractions, he or she is actually allowed to do the job free from oppression.
Back to Hamilton, who said recently: "Sebastian Vettel always runs over the astroturf and over the kerb a little more than he should, going beyond the white line, which you're not actually allowed to do but they let you get away with it.
"The film was the blueprint, but what we were actually allowed to do was go as deep into the story as we always wanted to do.
"I don't like misleading people, but I feel like this is like the one time in life that you are actually allowed to do it, and you oughta get a get-out-of-jail-free pass," says Brendan, who is mostly misleading himself.
"They don't do physical work for hours on end and are actually only allowed to do one performance a day.
See the animation in him as he sets his field, and understand that it is not only his insistence that things are just so that is paramount, but that he is actually being allowed to do this for himself.
"We do our best to save lives but we're actually not allowed to do the things that paramedics want to do sometimes".
On the other hand, the Coen Brothers have stated that Barton Fink in no way represented their experiences in Hollywood because they have actually been allowed to do all the projects they want, the way they want.
"The question we have, however," said Peg Seminario, health and safety director for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., "is what he actually will be allowed to do to protect worker safety and health given the Bush administration's track record on these issues to date".
We weren't actually allowed to garden, but that didn't stop us from doing it.
It may be a tribute to American regulation that Enron was actually allowed to go bust, and luckily this does not appear to have had system-wide consequences.
